4. Legs and body with no lobe-like processes. (Antennae simple in each sex.)
5. Pronotum not forming any dilatation above the insertion of the coxae, its lateral margins straight or (in the genus Choeradodis) strongly dilated with the anterior margin not rounded. Tribe 2. Orthoderides. (Fig. 142, Pyrgomantis; Fig. 143, Choeradodis; Fig. 144, Eremiaphila turcica.)
5′. Pronotum dilated above the insertion of the coxae, there with the lateral margins broadened in a round manner, the anterior margin rounded. Tribe 3. Mantides. (Fig. 140, Iris oratoria.)
4′. Legs or body furnished with lobes. (Posterior femora or segments of the body with lobes, or vertex of the head conically prolonged.) Tribe 4. Harpagides. (Fig. 136, Harpax variegatus; Fig. 135, Deroplatys sarawaca.)
3′. Tibiae as well as the intermediate and hind femora carinate above. (Pronotum elongate, with the posterior part, behind the transverse groove, three times as long as the anterior part.) Tribe 5. Vatides. (Fig. 147, Stenophylla cornigera.)
2′. Anterior femora beneath, with the inner edge armed between the longer teeth with shorter teeth, usually three in number. Antennae of the male bipectinate. (Vertex conically prolonged.) Tribe 6. Empusides. (Fig. 146, Gongylus gongylodes.)
CHAPTER XI
ORTHOPTERA CONTINUED—PHASMIDAE—WALKING-LEAVES—STICK-INSECTS
Fam. V. Phasmidae—Stick and Leaf Insects.
Head exserted; prothorax small, not elongate; mesothorax very elongate; the six legs differing but little from one another, the front pair not raptorial, the hind pair not saltatorial. The cerci of the abdomen not jointed, consisting of only one piece; the tarsi five-jointed. Tegmina usually small, or entirely absent, even when the wings are present and ample. The sexes frequently very dissimilar. Absence of alar organs frequent.